Accessibility testing and evaluation of Ebsco

Tools and techniques

These Best Practices are not a new standard, but rather a statement of
techniques for implementation of the W3C Web Content
Accessibility Guidelines and United States Federal Government Section
508 standards. Following the best practices in developing web
resources not only improves accessibility for people with
disabilities, but also improves interoperability, giving everyone the
benefit of having more options for accessing and using those
resources.

The HTML Best Practices organizes the accessibility issues in the following 5 categories:

Navigation and Orientation

Text Equivalence

Scripting and Automation

Styling

Standards

we use 3 tools and methods to test and evaluate the accessibility of websites/web applications:

Firefox Accessibility Extenssion
The Mozilla/Firefox Accessibility Extension makes it easier for people with disabilities to view and navigate web content. A toolbar provides easy access to navigation, styling, and keyboard enhancement functionality. Developers can use the extension to check their structural markup from the browser window to verify that it matches the page content. The Accessibility Extension helps authors to meet these kinds of accessibility practices that are so important for the browsing experience of all users and vital to those with special needs.

Manual testing and evaluation
Finally we test and evaluate the website/web application manually for
its usability/accessibility. Many pure accessibility problems can be
identified by the above tools but there are certain
usability/accessibility issues than can be only identified by human
testers.

We usually start with FAE report to get an idea about the magnetute of the accessibility issues with a web site/web application.
Then we use Mozilla/Firefox Extenssion tool to nerow down the problems In all 5 major categories of the Best Practices and record them. This requires a lot of interactions with the website/web application and this gives us a good exposure into the usability issues as well.

Accessibility reports

We have tested and evaluated the Ebsco database several times for accessibility in the past month and compiled various reports.